In 1990 the women of VfR 09 Saarbrücken were a founding member of the Bundesliga.

In 1997 the women's football team of VfR 09 Saarbrücken left VfR to join 1. FC Saarbrücken. Up to 2010/11 the team has played in 16 Bundesliga seasons, since then they have been playing in the 2nd Bundesliga, the teams greatest success was an appearance in the 2008 DFB cup final where they lost 1–5 to 1. FFC Frankfurt.

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2. Frauen-Bundesliga
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The 2nd Womens Football Bundesliga is the second league competition for womens association football in Germany. It is divided two groups, north and south. The winner of group, if not a reserve team of a Bundesliga side, is promoted to the Bundesliga. The 2nd Bundesliga is planned to be played as one group of 14 teams by the 2018–19 season, the number of teams qualified will be determined after the 2017–18 season. 1Hamburg II was the first reserve team won the league. As reserve teams are ineligible for promotion,1, FC Lokomotive Leipzig as runners-up got promoted. 2 FSV Gütersloh 2009 as runners-up got promoted,3 Herford as runners-up got promoted. 4 Lübars did not apply for a Bundesliga license for financial reasons, second placed Werder Bremen were promoted

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Kit (association football)
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In association football, kit is the standard equipment and attire worn by players. The sports Laws of the Game specify the minimum kit which a player must use, footballers generally wear identifying numbers on the backs of their shirts. Professional clubs also usually display players surnames or nicknames on their shirts, Football kit has evolved significantly since the early days of the sport when players typically wore thick cotton shirts, knickerbockers and heavy rigid leather boots. The Laws of the Game set out the equipment which must be worn by all players in Law 4. Five separate items are specified, shirt, shorts, socks, footwear, goalkeepers are allowed to wear tracksuit bottoms instead of shorts. While most players wear studded football boots, the Laws do not specify that these are required, shirts must have sleeves, and goalkeepers must wear shirts which are easily distinguishable from all other players and the match officials. Thermal undershorts may be worn, but must be the colour as the shorts themselves. Shin pads must be covered entirely by the stockings, be made of rubber, plastic or a similar material, and provide a reasonable degree of protection. The only other restriction on equipment defined in the Laws of the Game is the requirement that a player must not use equipment or wear anything that is dangerous to himself or another player. In the event of a match between teams who would wear identical or similar colours the away team must change to a different colour. The England national team plays in red shirts even when it is not required. Many professional clubs also have a kit, ostensibly to be used if both their first-choice and away colours are deemed too similar to those of an opponent. Most professional clubs have retained the basic colour scheme for several decades. Teams representing countries in international competition generally wear national colours in common with other sporting teams of the same nation, shirts are normally made of a polyester mesh, which does not trap the sweat and body heat in the same way as a shirt made of a natural fibre. Depending on local rules, there may be restrictions on how large these logos may be or on what logos may be displayed, competitions such as the Premier League may also require players to wear patches on their sleeves depicting the logo of the competition. The captain of team is usually required to wear an elasticated armband around the left sleeve to identify him as the captain to the referee. Most current players wear specialist football boots, which can be either of leather or a synthetic material. Modern boots are cut slightly below the ankles, as opposed to the high-ankled boots used in former times, studs may be either moulded directly to the sole or be detachable, normally by means of a screw thread

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Away colours
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Away colours are a choice of coloured clothing used in team sports. They are required to be worn by one team during a game between teams that would wear the same colours as each other, or similar colours. This change prevents confusion for officials, players, and spectators, in most sports it is the visiting team that must change – second-choice kits are commonly known as away kits or change kits in British English, and road uniforms in American English. Some sports leagues mandate that teams must always wear an alternative kit. In some sports, conventionally the home team has changed its kit, in most cases, a team wears its away kit only when its primary kit would clash with the colours of the home team. However, sometimes teams wear away colours by choice, occasionally even in a home game, at some clubs, the away kit has become more popular than the home version. Replica home and away kits are available for fans to buy. Some teams also have produced third-choice kits, or even old-fashioned throwback uniforms, in American sports, road teams usually wear a change uniform regardless of a potential colour clash. Further, almost all road uniforms are white in American football, in the National Basketball Association, home uniforms are white or yellow, and visiting teams wear a darker colour. In the United States, color vs. color games are a rarity, most teams choose to wear their color jerseys at home, with the road team changing to white in most cases. White road uniforms gained prominence with the rise of television in the 1950s, a white vs. color game was easier to follow in black-and-white. According to Phil Hecken, until the mid 1950′s, not only was color versus color common in the NFL, even long after the advent of color television, the use of white jerseys has remained in almost every game. The NFLs current rules require that a home jerseys must be either white or official team color throughout the season. If a team insists on wearing its home uniforms on the road, the road team might instead wear a third jersey, such as the Seattle Seahawks Wolf Grey alternate. According to the Gridiron Uniform Database, the Cleveland Browns wore white for home game of the 1955 season. The only times they wore brown was for games at Philadelphia and the New York Giants, in 1964 the Baltimore Colts, Browns, Vikings and Rams wore white regularly for their home games according to Tim Brulias research. The St. Louis Cardinals wore white for several of their home games, until 1964 Dallas had worn blue at home, but it was not an official rule that teams should wear their colored jerseys at home. The use of white jerseys was instigated by general manager Tex Schramm, the Cowboys still wear white at home today

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Association football
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies making it the worlds most popular sport, the game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal, players are not allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play, unless they are goalkeepers. Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, the team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is level at the end of the game, the Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association in 1863. Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football, the first written reference to the inflated ball used in the game was in the mid-14th century, Þe heued fro þe body went, Als it were a foteballe. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the word soccer was split off in 1863, according to Partha Mazumdar, the term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford -er abbreviation of the word association. Within the English-speaking world, association football is now usually called football in the United Kingdom and mainly soccer in Canada and the United States. People in Australia, Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand use either or both terms, although national associations in Australia and New Zealand now primarily use football for the formal name. According to FIFA, the Chinese competitive game cuju is the earliest form of football for which there is scientific evidence, cuju players could use any part of the body apart from hands and the intent was kicking a ball through an opening into a net. It was remarkably similar to football, though similarities to rugby occurred. During the Han Dynasty, cuju games were standardised and rules were established, phaininda and episkyros were Greek ball games. An image of an episkyros player depicted in low relief on a vase at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens appears on the UEFA European Championship Cup, athenaeus, writing in 228 AD, referenced the Roman ball game harpastum. Phaininda, episkyros and harpastum were played involving hands and violence and they all appear to have resembled rugby football, wrestling and volleyball more than what is recognizable as modern football. As with pre-codified mob football, the antecedent of all football codes. Non-competitive games included kemari in Japan, chuk-guk in Korea and woggabaliri in Australia, Association football in itself does not have a classical history. Notwithstanding any similarities to other games played around the world FIFA have recognised that no historical connection exists with any game played in antiquity outside Europe. The modern rules of football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played in the public schools of England

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Germany
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres, with about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular destination in the world. Germanys capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Leipzig. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity, a region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward, beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation, in 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic, the establishment of the national socialist dictatorship in 1933 led to World War II and the Holocaust. After a period of Allied occupation, two German states were founded, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in 1990, the country was reunified. In the 21st century, Germany is a power and has the worlds fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP. As a global leader in industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a country with a very high standard of living sustained by a skilled. It upholds a social security and universal health system, environmental protection. Germany was a member of the European Economic Community in 1957. It is part of the Schengen Area, and became a co-founder of the Eurozone in 1999, Germany is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, and the OECD. The national military expenditure is the 9th highest in the world, the English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. This in turn descends from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz popular, derived from *þeudō, descended from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂- people, the discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The oldest complete hunting weapons found anywhere in the world were discovered in a mine in Schöningen where three 380, 000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed

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Frauen-Bundesliga
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The Allianz Frauen-Bundesliga is the main league competition for womens association football in Germany. In 1990 the German Football Association created the German Womens Bundesliga and it was first played with north and south divisions, but in 1997 the groups were merged to form a uniform league. The league currently consists of teams and the seasons usually last from late summer to the end of spring with a break in the winter. In the UEFA Womens Champions League, the Frauen-Bundesliga is the most successful league with a total of nine titles from four clubs, FFC Frankfurt winning the most titles of any club. In the Bundesliga are twelve teams, at the end of a season the clubs finishing 11th and 12th are replaced with the winners of the two 2. A Bundesliga season consists of two rounds with 22 games combined, in a round every club plays against each other, having a home game against a specific club in one round and an away game in the other. The seasons typically start in August or September, with the first round finishing in December, the second round typically starts in February and ends in May or June, though sometimes the first games of the second round are held in December. Also due to the interference of World Cups the league might in certain years be suspended for a month, the team in the 1st spot after the 22nd day of play is the champion, gaining the title of Deutscher Meister. The champion as well as the second-place finisher qualifies for the UEFA Womens Champions League, as the winner of the UEFA Womens Champions League is automatically qualified for the UEFA Womens Champions League in the next year, in 2009–10 the Bundesliga had three teams in the Champions League. The Bundesliga ranking is determined by points a club has gained during a season, a win is worth 3 points, a draw 1, and a loss 0. The tiebreakers are in descending order goal difference, goals for, if the tie cannot be broken a tiebreaking game is held. For German football champions prior to the Bundesliga see the List of German womens football champions,1 Two runners-up finishes as SG Praunheim. 2 One runners-up finishes as FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen, German womens football champions Womens German Cup German Football Association section on womens football

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1. FFC Frankfurt
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FFC Frankfurt is a German womens association football club based in Frankfurt, Hesse and has a membership of about 430. The team currently plays in the German first division womens Bundesliga, FFC Frankfurt have won seven German womens football championships, a record nine Frauen DFB-Pokals, and a record four UEFA Womens Champions Leagues. FFC Frankfurt play at the Stadion am Brentanobad, FFC Frankfurt has a rivalry with 1. The club has its origins at the SG Praunheim, at Praunheim a womens football department was established in 1973. The club had no showings at national championship or cup tournaments, in the early 1990s Praunheim achieved mid-table results with a tendency for slight improvements from season to season. Thus Frankfurt qualified for the playoffs for the German football championship for the first time in 1995–96, in the following seasons FFC Frankfurt managed to stay amongst the top clubs in German football, but won no titles. Also during that time they were put behind by local rival FSV Frankfurt. On 1 January 1999 the womens department left Praunheim to form 1, the club had success immediately winning the cup and the championship in their first season. In 1999–2000 Frankfurt won their cup, but lost the championship to FCR Duisburg which in the previous season had finished second only to Frankfurt in both competitions. From 2000 to 2003 Frankfurt won three consecutive doubles while also rising to the pinnacle of European football with a victory in the UEFA Womens Cups inaugury season in 2002, during these years a club from Potsdam had begun to challenge the supremacy of FFC Frankfurt. Thus in 2003–04 Turbine Potsdam won a double of their own, after Turbine had won its own UEFA Cup title in 2005 both clubs met in the final of the UEFA Cup. Thanks to a 4–0 victory at Potsdam in the first leg Frankfurt was able to claim their second European title, the final was attended by a record crowd of 13,100 and even German chancellor Angela Merkel was amongst the spectators. Having conceded the three cup finals to Potsdam Frankfurt won another double in 2006–07, but lost in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup to Norwegian Kolbotn. Frankfurt won their second treble in the 2007–08, thus becoming the first, the second leg of the final against Umeå was attended by 27,640, a new record attendance for a womens club football game in Europe. Frankfurts performance dropped considerably in the 2008–09 season, a fourth-place finish in the league was the clubs worst performance since a uniform Bundesliga was put into place. Also Frankfurt did not reach the cup final for the first time since 1998, losing in the round to Bayern Munich. In the UEFA Cup Frankfurt was eliminated by FCR2001 Duisburg in the quarter-finals, Frankfurt plays their homegames in the Stadion am Brentanobad, a stadium in the Rödelheim district of Frankfurt they share with the mens team of Rot-Weiss Frankfurt. Stadion am Brentobad is owned by the city of Frankfurt and has a capacity of 5,200 with 1,100 of those being roofed seats, in recent seasons Frankfurt had the highest attendance average in the Bundesliga with more than 1,000 spectators on average

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Iceland
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Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of 332,529 and an area of 103,000 km2, the capital and largest city is Reykjavík. Reykjavík and the areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active, the interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains and glaciers, while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a climate, despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle. Its high latitude and marine influence still keeps summers chilly, with most of the archipelago having a tundra climate. According to the ancient manuscript Landnámabók, the settlement of Iceland began in the year 874 AD when the Norwegian chieftain Ingólfr Arnarson became the first permanent settler on the island. In the following centuries, Norwegians, and to a lesser extent other Scandinavians, emigrated to Iceland, the island was governed as an independent commonwealth under the Althing, one of the worlds oldest functioning legislative assemblies. Following a period of strife, Iceland acceded to Norwegian rule in the 13th century. The establishment of the Kalmar Union in 1397 united the kingdoms of Norway, Denmark, Iceland thus followed Norways integration to that Union and came under Danish rule after Swedens secession from that union in 1523. In the wake of the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars, Icelands struggle for independence took form and culminated in independence in 1918, until the 20th century, Iceland relied largely on subsistence fishing and agriculture, and was among the poorest in Europe. Industrialisation of the fisheries and Marshall Plan aid following World War II brought prosperity, in 1994, it became a part of the European Economic Area, which further diversified the economy into sectors such as finance, biotechnology, and manufacturing. Iceland has an economy with relatively low taxes compared to other OECD countries. It maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides health care. Iceland ranks high in economic, political and social stability and equality, in 2013, it was ranked as the 13th most-developed country in the world by the United Nations Human Development Index. Iceland runs almost completely on renewable energy, some bankers were jailed, and the economy has made a significant recovery, in large part due to a surge in tourism. Icelandic culture is founded upon the nations Scandinavian heritage, most Icelanders are descendants of Germanic and Gaelic settlers. Icelandic, a North Germanic language, is descended from Old Norse and is related to Faroese

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Nigeria
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Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. It comprises 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Nigeria is officially a democratic secular country. Modern-day Nigeria has been the site of numerous kingdoms and tribal states over the millennia, the modern state originated from British colonial rule beginning in the 19th century, and the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914. The British set up administrative and legal structures whilst practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms, Nigeria became a formally independent federation in 1960, and plunged into a civil war from 1967 to 1970. Nigeria is often referred to as the Giant of Africa, owing to its large population, with approximately 184 million inhabitants, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world. Nigeria has one of the largest populations of youth in the world, Nigeria is divided roughly in half between Christians, who live mostly in the southern part of the country, and Muslims in the northern part. A minority of the population practise religions indigenous to Nigeria, such as native to the Igbo. As of 2015, Nigeria is the worlds 20th largest economy, worth more than $500 billion and $1 trillion in terms of nominal GDP and it overtook South Africa to become Africas largest economy in 2014. The 2013 debt-to-GDP ratio was 11 percent, Nigeria is a member of the MINT group of countries, which are widely seen as the globes next BRIC-like economies. It is also listed among the Next Eleven economies set to become among the biggest in the world, Nigeria is a founding member of the African Union and a member of many other international organizations, including the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations and OPEC. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country and this name was coined in the late 19th century by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later married Lord Lugard, a British colonial administrator. The origin of the name Niger, which applied only to the middle reaches of the Niger River, is uncertain. The word is likely an alteration of the Tuareg name egerew n-igerewen used by inhabitants along the middle reaches of the river around Timbuktu prior to 19th-century European colonialism. The Nok civilisation of Northern Nigeria flourished between 500 BC and AD200, producing life-sized terracotta figures which are some of the earliest known sculptures in Sub-Saharan Africa, further north, the cities Kano and Katsina have a recorded history dating to around 999 AD. Hausa kingdoms and the Kanem-Bornu Empire prospered as trade posts between North and West Africa, the Kingdom of Nri of the Igbo people consolidated in the 10th century and continued until it lost its sovereignty to the British in 1911. Nri was ruled by the Eze Nri, and the city of Nri is considered to be the foundation of Igbo culture, Nri and Aguleri, where the Igbo creation myth originates, are in the territory of the Umeuri clan. Members of the clan trace their lineages back to the patriarchal king-figure Eri, in West Africa, the oldest bronzes made using the lost-wax process were from Igbo Ukwu, a city under Nri influence. The Yoruba kingdoms of Ife and Oyo in southwestern Nigeria became prominent in the 12th and 14th centuries, the oldest signs of human settlement at Ifes current site date back to the 9th century, and its material culture includes terracotta and bronze figures

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Arminia Bielefeld
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DSC Arminia Bielefeld is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating, the club has 12,000 members and the club colours are black, white and blue. Arminias name derives from the Cheruscian chieftain Arminius, who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, the club is most commonly known for its professional football team that play in the 2. Bundesliga and mostly played in the first or second tier of the German football league system, Arminias most successful years were the 1920s, the early 1980s and the middle 2000s. In 1947 and in the 1950s Arminia had sunk down to a team playing in a local area in the third tier. Arminia plays their games at the Bielefelder Alm Stadium since 1926. Since 2004 the stadium has been named SchücoArena through a sponsorship deal, Arminia Bielefeld was founded on 3 May 1905 as 1. The fourteen men who founded the club were from the local bourgeoisie, two weeks later, the club played its first match against a team from Osnabrück. Neither the name of the opponent nor the result are known, the club was admitted to the German Football Association in the same year and started to play in a league in 1906. In 1907, local rivals FC Siegfried joined Arminia, a move which strengthened Arminia‘s squad. after playing on various grounds, Arminia moved to a new home at the Pottenau in 1910. Their first big achievement came in 1912, when they won the Westphalian championship after a 5–1 win over BV04 Dortmund in the final, the outbreak of World War I interrupted Arminias rise to the top. In 1919, Arminia merged with Bielefelder Turngemeinde 1848 to form TG Arminia Bielefeld, however, the two merged teams dissolved the merger in 1922 and both parent clubs were formed again. Arminia won the West German championship in 1922, originally, they were level on points with Kölner BC01, but Köln fielded an ineligible player in one match. Arminia played for the first time in the German Championships but were eliminated in the quarter-finals after losing 0–5 to FC Wacker München, in 1923, Arminia won their second West German championship in a dramatic way. They trailed TuRU Düsseldorf 1–3 at half time of the final, Arminia faced Union Oberschöneweide in the quarter-finals of the German championships. The match ended goalless, so a replay was held, Arminia led 1–0 and suffered the equalizer in injury time. The Berlin side won the match after extra time, Walter Claus-Oehler became Arminia‘s first player to win a cap in the German national team. Arminia won further Westphalian titles from 1924 to 1927 but were unable to repeat their success in the West German Championships, a match between SC Preußen Münster and Arminia in November 1925 was the first football match to be broadcast on German Radio

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BV Cloppenburg (women)
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BV Cloppenburg Frauen is a German womens football team. It represents BV Cloppenburg in the 2, the team has its origins in Regionalliga side SV Höltinghausen, which was absorbed by Cloppenburg in 2008. Cloppenburg earned promotion to the Second Bundesliga in its second try

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Herforder SV Borussia Friedenstal
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HSV Borussia Friedenstal, or Herforder SV, is a German sports club based in Friedenstal, a suburb of Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1953 and the team was established in 1969. Friedenstal greatest success was the qualification for the Bundesliga in 2008–09, after being relegated in its first Bundesliga season, the club again got promoted to the Bundesliga in 2009–10 but now plays in the 2. Borussia Friedenstal was founded in 1953, after a friendly game in 1969 the womens department was established under the lead of Fritz Böke and Doris Henschel. Four years later Friedenstal began participating in official games,1975 Friedenstal achieved promotion to the Bezirksliga and three years later another promotion brought the club to Germanys top tier football league, the Landesliga. In 1980 Borussia lost in the final of the Westfalencup only on penalties to TSV Siegen, Friedenstal also qualified for the Verbandsliga at its inception in 1981 and for the Regionalliga at its inception in 1985. After withdrawing their team from the Regionalliga Friedenstal got promoted to the Regionalliga again in 1993, an intermezzo in the Verbandsliga in 1995–96 ended without a loss and yet another promotion to the Regionalliga for Friedenstal. The club won the Westfalenpokal in 2000 and 2001, thereby qualifying for the DFB Pokal, at the inception of the 2. Bundesliga in 2004 Friedenstal failed to qualify, but managed promotion as champion of the Regionalliga West in 2006, after just two years in the 2. Bundesliga the clubs greatest success came in form of the promotion to Germanys premier football league, Bundesliga again, this time without a loss and setting a new record and plays in the 1. As of 3 October 2015 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Anna Laue Kylla Sjoman Official site of HSV Borussia Friedenstal Fußball-Bundesliga at DFB

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SV Henstedt-Ulzburg
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SV Henstedt-Ulzburg is a German association football club based in Henstedt-Ulzburg, Schleswig-Holstein. The footballers are part of a 1,500 member sports club also has departments for athletics, handball, table tennis. The football side was formed in 1963 as Sportverein Henstedt-Rhen and recently advanced to the Schleswig-Holstein-Liga, the club plays its home matches in the Sportanlage am Schäferkampsweg, which has a capacity of 2,000. After playing in the tier five Schleswig-Holstein-Liga from 2008 to 2013 and, again, from 2014 to 2016, the clubs honours, Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein Champions,2006 Official club website

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FF USV Jena
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The Universitätssportverein Jena is a German sports club from Jena. They were relegated one season and have remained in the 2nd tier league since then. In 2003 Jena became champions of the northeastern Regionalliga but failed to achieve promotion to the Bundesliga, the decisive match was lost at home against Hamburger SV. A year later qualified for the newly founded 2nd Bundesliga and were grouped into the southern division. In 2005 and 2006 they came in third, in 2007 even in second place, in the 2007–08 season, Jena finished first in the 2nd Bundesliga Süd and got promoted to the Bundesliga. In 2008–09 the managed a 9th place and improved to an 8th place the next season, the teams biggest success was reaching the final of the 2009–10 Frauen DFB-Pokal, where they lost 0–1 to FCR2001 Duisburg. As of 5 September 2015 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Head coach, Daniel Kraus Assistant coach, Steffen Beck Goalkeeper coach, Bernd Lindrath Fitness coach, Oliver Heck Official club homepage

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SV Meppen
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SV Meppen is a German association football club playing in Meppen, Lower Saxony. The club was founded on 29 November 1912 as Amisia Meppen, the football branch left TuS Meppen in 1921 to create a separate club called Sport Verein Meppen 1912 e. V. SV Meppen spent a total of 11 years in the 2. Bundesliga, the footballers have had a relatively a quiet history playing in III and IV level circles, winning their first title of any sort when they claimed the Amateurliga Lower Saxony championship in 1961. They claimed a title there in 1968 and then qualified for the Regionalliga Nord in 1972. After league re-structuring in 1974 the team played in the Oberliga Nord where they won the championship in 1987, generally, the side ended up mid-table there with their best finishes being 7th in 1994 and 6th in 1995. Meppen played their way into the eight of the 1997 DFB-Pokal competition on the strength of a memorable 6–1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt. During the new century SV Meppen was passed throw to the Niedersachsenliga and they won the Niedersachsenliga championship and advanced to the Regionalliga Nord. The MEP-Arena is located in northern Meppen on Lathener Strasse, construction on the site was finished in 1924 and the stadium was named Hindenburg Stadion two years later. In 1992 the stadium was renamed Emsland-Stadion, a sponsorship deal in 2011 currently has the stadium branded as MEP-Arena. The stadiums largest ever crowd of 18,000 spectators watched SV Meppen play a 1982 friendly against FC Barcelona, today the stadium has a capacity of 16,500. As of 7 March 2016 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. In 404 games there, the team scored 495 goals, with a record of 124 wins,139 draws, hans Vinke, Die Meppen-Story, Geschichte eines Fußball-Phänomens,1997, ISBN 3-927099-56-2 Official website

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1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
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FFC Turbine Potsdam is a football club team in Potsdam, Germany. Frauen-Fußball-Club Turbine Potsdam 71 e. V and they are one of the most successful teams in Germany. The team plays in the Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion in the Babelsberg district of Potsdam, before the reunification of Germany, the team was one of the predominant teams in East German womens football. The team currently plays in the German womens Bundesliga and it is the team from the former East to win the unified title. The team also won the UEFA Womens Champions League competition in the 2004–05 season and their biggest rivals are Western FFC Frankfurt. In 1955, the Betriebssportgemeinschaft Turbine Potsdam was founded, the club was supported by the local energy supplier. The men’s football team played with success on lower levels. On New Year’s Eve 1970, Bernd Schröder, an employee of the energy supplier and it says that a women’s football team will be established on 3 March 1971. The identify of the responsible for this paper was never established. The women’s team was founded on 3 March 1971, and Bernd Schröder became the first coach, the first match was played on 25 May 1971, at Empor Tangermünde and ended with a 3–0 win for Turbine. The first district championship was played a later and was won by Turbine. Schröder was always looking for new players and he concentrated on former track and field athletes who were dropped by their clubs. Schröder became an employee in his company, so he could offer jobs. In 1979, the first unofficial women’s football championship of the GDR was held – unofficial as women’s football was far from being recognised by the Olympic Games, Turbine was the favourite but missed the final tournament. They also missed the tournament in 1980. The final tournament in 1981 was held in Potsdam and Schröder was under pressure and he held a training camp by the Baltic Sea. However, the team struggled during the qualification, the team was unbeaten in the final tournament and won their first championship. Each player received 50 East German mark and Schröder was awarded the title Activist of socialist work, Turbine also won the championships of 1982 and 1983

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VfL Wolfsburg (women)
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The womens association football section of VfL Wolfsburg is playing in the top division of Germany the Bundesliga. The club has won the UEFA Womens Champions League in 2013 and 2014, vfR Eintracht Wolfsburg was founded in 1973. The team was a member of the Bundesliga. In 2003 the team joined VfL Wolfsburg, after a fifth place in 2009–10, Wolfsburg grew up one year later, contending for the title and managed to be runner-up in 2011–12. In the 2012–13 season Wolfsburg won the UEFA Womens Champions League, two weeks prior the team achieved its first Bundesliga title. They were the team, after 1. FFC Frankfurt to complete the treble, by winning the domestic cup competition. This was the first time that the year both in mens and womens football, clubs from the same nation, complete the treble. They were also the first German football team to defend their Champions League title. As of 31 March 2017 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Nadine Keßler Verena Faißt Jovana Damnjanović Josephine Henning Martina Müller Viola Odebrecht Navina Omilade Conny Pohlers Alisa Vetterlein Rebecca Smith Official website

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SC Freiburg (women)
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SC Freiburg is the womens association football team of SC Freiburg. The team played several seasons in Germanys top-level league, in 2009–10 they were relegated from the Bundesliga to the 2nd Bundesliga. One year later they again were promoted to the Bundesliga, as of 1 September 2016 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality

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TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
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Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e. V. The modern-day club was formed in 1945, when gymnastics club Turnverein Hoffenheim, at the beginning of the 1990s, the club was an obscure local amateur side playing in the eighth division Baden-Württemberg A-Liga. They steadily improved and by 1996 were competing in the Verbandsliga Nordbaden, around 2000, alumnus Dietmar Hopp returned to the club of his youth as a financial backer. Hopp was the co-founder of software firm SAP and he put some of his money into the club and his contributions generated almost immediate results, in 2000 Hoffenheim finished first in the Verbandsliga and was promoted to the fourth-division Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. Another first-place finish moved the club up to the Regionalliga Süd for the 2001–02 season and they finished 13th in their first season in the Regionalliga, but improved significantly the next year, earning a fifth-place result. Hoffenheim earned fifth and seventh-place finishes in the two seasons, before improving to fourth in 2005–06 to earn their best result to date. The club made its first DFB-Pokal appearance in the 2003–04 competition and performed well, Bundesliga sides Eintracht Trier and Karlsruher SC and Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen before being put out themselves by another 2. Team owner Hopp clearly preferred Heidelberg, but could not overcome the resistance of local firm Wild, the investment paid off in the 2006–07 season with the clubs promotion to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing second in Regionalliga Süd, the 2007–08 season was Hoffenheims first season in professional football. The team managed to defend their place until the end of the season, as a result of their second-place finish they received automatic promotion to the Bundesliga, the highest tier in German football, after just playing in the 2. The 2008–09 season was Hoffenheims first season in the German top division, ibišević scored a total of 18 goals in 17 matches, being the Bundesligas leading goal scorer after the first half of the season. Hoffenheim was now deprived of their biggest offensive threat and additionally had to deal with a number of other injuries. In the 2009–10 season, Hoffenheim improved their squad by signing midfielders Maicosuel and Franco Zuculini, however, the club again suffered from a large number of injuries and suspensions in the second half of the season and only won four of the 17 matches. The club finished in a disappointing 11th place with 42 points, head coach Ralf Rangnick was criticised in public for the poor results of his team, yet his contract was extended for two more years in May. On 1 January 2011, Hoffenheim sold Brazilian midfielder Luiz Gustavo to league rivals Bayern Munich for a fee of €17 million. Immediately after the transfer had completed, Rangnick resigned and was replaced by Marco Pezzaiuoli. Rangnick had disapproved the transfer in the weeks before since Hoffenheim was in reach of the top five and had reached the quarter-finals of the 2010–11 DFB-Pokal, like in the previous season, the club finished the 2010–11 season 11th and below expectations. Hoffenheim signed former FC St. Pauli manager Holger Stanislawski in the summer of 2011 for the upcoming season, Stanislawski was sacked and replaced by Markus Babbel, who led the team to its third-straight 11th-place finish

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Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women)
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The origin of Bayer Leverkusen womens football section lies at the SSG09 Bergisch Gladbach, which in the 1970s and 1980s was the dominating club in German womens football. In that period Bergisch Gladbach won the womens football championship nine times which today is still the record. They also won the DFB-Pokal three times, after the inception of the Bundesliga in 1990 their performance declined through the 1990s, eventually leading to relegation. In 1996 the womens team moved from SSG09 Bergisch Gladbach to TuS Köln rrh, at Köln the team played mostly second-tier football with a few seasons in the third tier in between. Their greatest success was an appearance in the 2007–08 cup. However the team was not able to find sponsors, that would help to realize the teams ambitions of playing Bundesliga football again, contemporaneously Bayer Leverkusen pronounced their interest to establish a womens football section of their own. On 25 June 2008 the womens department of TuS Köln rrh. disbanded to join Bayer Leverkusen. In their first season at Bayer Leverkusen the team finished 7th in the group of the 2nd Bundesliga. The following season Leverkusen became champion of the 2nd Bundesliga and will play in the Bundesliga in the 2010-11 season. In its debut season the team was 8th, the following season the team finished 11th in the table, yet wasnt relegated as Hamburger SV announced its disestablishment of the womens section. Since the 2012-13 season, Leverkusen has been coached by Thomas Obliers, as of 2 September 2016 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality, kurt-Rieß-Anlage Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Jugendleistungszentrum Kurtekotten Official team site

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TSV Schott Mainz
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The TSV Schott Mainz is a German association football club from the town of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Apart from football the club offers more than 30 other sports like ice hockey, field hockey. It is financially supported by the Schott AG, the clubs greatest success has been to earn promotion to the tier five Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar in 2014. Formed in 1953 the club, then under the name of TuS Glaswerk Schott Mainz earned promotion to the tier-four 2. Its first season there was a success, coming third in the league but results declined from there on and, in the next four decades the club played in local amateur football before returning to its former heights. Mainz began its rise through the system in 2008 when it won the local Kreisliga championship. In 2009 the club won the Bezirksklasse, followed by the Bezirksliga in 2010, playing in the Verbandsliga Südwest for the next three seasons from 2011 Mainz came seventh in its first season there, followed by a runners-up finish in 2013. A Verbandsliga title in 2014 meant the club was promoted to the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar for the first time, liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier, official team site Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables

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FC Bayern Munich (women)
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FC Bayern Munich is a German football club, which had major success in the 1970s, but faded in the 1990s after relegation from the Bundesliga in 1992. The club achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in 2000 and had mid-table results since, in 2009 Bayern were runners-up in the Bundesliga, trailing champion Turbine Potsdam by a single goal. In the 2011–12 season on 12 May 2012, FC Bayern Munich dethroned the German Cup title holders 1, FFC Frankfurt with a 2–0 in the 2011–12 final in Cologne and celebrated the biggest success of the clubs history since winning the championship in 1976. In 2015 they won the Bundesliga for the first time, without any defeat and they won the 2015–16 Bundesliga, for the second time in a row. As of 23 March 2017 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. The womens second team won the championship in the 2008–09 Regionalliga, Bayern II is managed by Nathalie Bischof

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1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen
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FFC08 Niederkirchen is a German womens football club based in Niederkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team plays in the German 2, TuS Niederkirchen was founded in 1900. Since 1969 the club had a football department, which was a member of the womens Bundesliga at its inception. After winning the championship in 1992–93 the club was relegated to the Regionalliga in 2000, several seasons of promotions and relegations followed. In the last season at TuS Niederkirchen the club finished 9th in the 2. When the clubs management decided not to apply for a license for the season, but did not inform the players about that decision. FFC08 Niederkirchen was established, and began playing in the Regionalliga Südwest in 2008-09

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VfL Sindelfingen
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VfL Sindelfingen is a German sports club from Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg. The club was founded in 1862 and has more than 9,000 members, vfL Sindelfingen has departments for various sports including football, volleyball, basketball, swimming, athletics, table tennis, and badminton. The womens football section is one of the most successful departments in the club and they played in the Bundesliga, Germanys premier football league for women, from its inception in 1990 till 1997. They were relegated after the 1996–97 season and struggled for some years, when the second Bundesliga was incepted in 2004 Sindelfingen was one of the founding members and even managed promotion to the Bundesliga after the first season. After a year in the Bundesliga they were relegated back to the league, where they played 2012. The teams current kit is light blue-white for home games and white or black-red for away games, the mens team gained promotion to the Verbandsliga Württemberg after the 2006–07 season, where they are still playing. The swimming team of Sindelfingen is a member of the Bundesliga, the women are part of the second Bundesliga